AWS Certified Security - Speciality

AWS Certified Security – Specialty
(Exam Code: SCS-C01)

CompTIA Security+ is a vendor-neutral certification course that covers the organizations of information security across number of technology platforms. The course covers industry-wide concepts including cryptography, authentication, communication security, access control, external attack, infrastructure security and organization and operational security. The demand for skilled security professionals is growing significantly. The technology community identifies this course as the perfect way to validate your knowledge of information security. The recommended pre-requisite to join Certificate in IT Security course is to have basic knowledge of Computer Networking.

Exam overview – SCS C01

  • Level: Associate
  • Length: 170 minutes to complete the exam
  • Cost: 300 USD
  • Format: 65 questions, either multiple choice or multiple response

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Security – Specialty is intended for individuals who perform a security role and have at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads

Recommended AWS knowledge

The target candidate should have the following knowledge:

  • The AWS shared responsibility model and its application
  • Security controls for workloads on AWS
  • Logging and monitoring strategies
  • Cloud security threat models
  • Patch management and security automation
  • Ways to enhance AWS security services with third-party tools and services
  • Disaster recovery controls, including BCP and backups
  • Encryption
  • Access control
  • Data retention

COURSE TOPICS:

  • Domain 1: Incident Response
  • Domain 2: Logging and Monitoring
  • Domain 3: Infrastructure Security
  • Domain 4: Identity and Access Management